List of Sports Events on January-1999

4- January-1999 Karnataka's Farah Khan made it three-in-a-row in the National ladies billiards championship in Delhi.
6- January-1999 Shiv Sena activists dug up the Kotla pitch in Delhi with a view to prevent the Indo-Pakistan first Test which was to commence from Jan. 28.
8- January-1999 Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi.
16- January-1999 Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.
17- January-1999 Madhya Pradesh won its maiden Wills Trophy championship, defeating Bengal in the final of the limited overs cricket championship in Calcutta.
18- January-1999 The office of the Board of Control for Cricket in India is ransacked allegedly by Shiv Sainiks protesting agains Pakistan team's tour of India. Shiv Sena denies hand in attack.
21- January-1999 Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, suspends his party's protest against the coming India-Pakistan cricket matches after an urgent meeting with the Union Home Minister in Mumbai.
27- January-1999 P. Krishnamurthy, former Indian wicketkeeper, died in Hyderabad following a cardiac arrest.
28- January-1999 Central Zone won the Deodhar Trophy, defeating South in their final in Agartala.
30- January-1999 Paes-Bhupathi stumbled in the doubles final losing to Patrick Rafter-Jonas Bjorkman in the Australian Open Tennis tournament.
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